New Farm home last sold in the 1950s with celebrity status

965 Brunswick Street New Farm last changed hands in the 1950s for approximately 2500 pounds.

Celebrity status was involved the last time this New Farm gem changed hands more than sixty years ago.

Bought by the current owners grandparents in the 1950s, for around two and a half thousand pounds, this prime location property was previously owned by John McCallum senior, father of Australian movie actor John McCallum Junior and his actress wife Googie Withers of Alfred Hitchcock film fame.

The homes current joint owner, Rick Nowicki said he had fond memories of the house he grew up in, especially being in the perfect location straight across from New Farm Park.

Rick Nowicki’s mother, the late Jean Nowicki in front of her now vintage New Farm home.

“Our house is on a massive block so you could play there until your heart was content, but the fact that the park was across the road meant I spent a lot of time in the park and fishing in the river,” Mr Nowicki said.

“And when the Brisbane Powerhouse was decommissioned in the early 1970s we used to play and fish there.

“New Farm was very much a working class suburb with the powerhouse, the sugar refinery, the plaster mill and the woolstore area.

“Plus I got to be in the navy reserves because the HMAS Moreton base was there at the end of Merthyr Road.”

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